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NEWS (28 Jumada al-Akhira 1430ah / June 24, 2009 CE): BY THE GRACE OF THE GOD, THE ALL MIGHTY, MY WIFE OF A LITTLE OVER ONE YEAR HAS ACCEPTED AL-ISLAAM! ALLAHU'AKBAR ALLAHU'AKBAR ALLAHU'AKBAR! She was raised Pentecostal.
My Story:
In the grand scheme of things I am but a culmination of Allah's ("allah" is the transliteration of the first person reference word for THE God in Arabic- you can find an Arabic Bible and look at Genesis 1:1 or anywhere the word God is) unequivocal Love as He saw it fit to matriculate the dusts from the corners of the universe in what is HIS creation and commanded life into what I see in the mirror. In other words—I am a speck of dust before the MAJESTY that is ALL-MIGHTY ALLAH.
Within the space next to the word "Religion" on my original birth certificate the words "Roman Catholic" reside. Born to American-born parents of Borinqueño descent I was also raised to believe this religion of Roman Catholicism IS religion.
Disenchanted with Catholicism, many Hispanics gravitate towards other sects of Christianity such as The Pentecosts, Baptists or Jehovah's Witnesses... but I was disenchanted with all of the bibles as it is claimed that it is the literal "Word of God" to which I pondered; "If, therein, is even one mistake I cannot accept as fact that any bible is 'The Word of God'..." Therein was my treading through agnosticism. *Until I started reading about Islam.*
When I began reading about Islam I'd no idea what I was in for. Being a skeptic I was doing my homework regarding this religion that began to seem "too good to be true"; reading books, asking Christians and Muslims questions... but to each his own experience. I decided that I couldn't just accept Islam, I had to read their book, because if I concluded of it what I did of the bibles I'd not accept Islam as my way of life.
*Somewhere along the line* of reading this book it occurred to me that this was a magnificent experience, and *I couldn't put this thing down.* Whatever the source of this work it appeared to have an expressed understanding of mankind and give examples with remarkable accuracy... but *it seemed to unfold or awaken something within myself* as well.
A few years before I found a Qur'aan in my hand or Islam at my heart I found myself on my mother's living room floor. I was imagining what you've probably imagined before while deluded by the reflection of youth; *being dead*. Not one muscle could I twitch, not one feeling could I feel... cold outside, cold in me... and I held my breath. *What was the point?* It wasn't within me to accept someone else's sacrifice (ie; Jesus, may God exalt his face on The Day of Recompense!) as my own—to me that was an excuse for people to do as they wish. *What was the point of my existence if at any point along this time line I am to shut off?* ...and I freaked out at the apparent inconclusiveness of my "conclusion".
What unfolded within me as I read The Qur'aan is the awakening of *my* realization of my self; *not the "I am" so much as the realization of the sphere of influence afforded [to] me and the ability to attempt to calculate the consequences of even the most mundane of my actions as obtaining a blessing or not in what will be, on One Day, the culmination and accounting of all that my life will have been—even in my intention and typing of the very now* for *it is God's knowledge, Alone, that is omniscient as opposed to that which is not Him (ie; His creation, including Jesus)*.
*In Islam alone I found an inner peace—a tranquility never known before to me with regards my part in The Grand Scheme...* in a religion I was indoctrinated to abhor by the institutionalized ignorance of my culture-from school to the movies to the newspaper articles of any Times periodical.
*LAA(no) ILAHA(god) ILA(but/except) ALLAH(God)
MUHAMMAD ARASOOLULLAH(the messenger of God)*
Please note that "ILAH" is 'god' or 'diety' or 'subject of worship' whilst "ALLAH" *means* 'God' (note the capital "G"). Period.
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911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!
Occupation
dhikrallah, working, spending time with the family, attempting da'wah
Interests
Qur'aan, Allah, Islam, Ummah, Muslims, Da'wah
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